High in the canopy of eastern forests, great crested flycatchers (Myiarchus crinitus) swoop out from their perches, snagging flying insects from the air and plucking them from twigs and leaves. These ...

The great crested flycatcher will make eager use of a nest box. Barb Rogers/Wildlife Recovery Association Long ago, I worked in my father's landscape business as a designer.

Further complicating the location and photography of the great crested flycatcher is the species’ choice of nesting location. These guys, like many other species, look for old woodpecker nest cavities ...

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William Johnson photographed a great crested flycatcher gathering nesting material in his backyard in Thoroughgood in Virginia Beach. “She is perched on the songbird nesting cage we filled with ...

The female great crested flycatcher looked to be doing most of the nest work, but the sexes look closely alike. About that crest: Peterson guides say the male often erects its crest. (Jim Williams ...

Knoxville resident Rebecca Boyd shared on Facebook on May 27 that she enjoyed seeing a new bird at her home. “Although the guide books say this is a common bird, ...

The melody was diagnostic. A great crested flycatcher was singing from the treetops. As usual, I couldn’t see the bird. Inhabiting the uppermost layers of the dense summer canopy, the species ...

A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a common bird of Eastern woodlands.

There are 374 species of tyrant flycatchers in the world, only 35 of them in the western Hemisphere and 13 you might find at some time during the summer nesting season or in migration in Mid ...

On a cloudy day, after spending days, hours, weeks in my Thinking Chair, an adult great crested flycatcher just happened to perch on a dead branch where I could actually see it. PHOTO BY BILL ...